Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges writes a regular column for Truthdig.com. Hedges graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of many books, including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. His most recent book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.
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Views Thursday, July 26, 2018 Chomsky, Prashad, Hedges and Other Leading Intellectuals: Denuclearize the Middle East The Middle East is in turmoil now, possibly again on the verge of a major war that could draw in the United States and Russia. President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the six-nation nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. Although a... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 16, 2018 The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom The failure on the part of establishment media to defend Julian Assange, who has been trapped in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, has been denied communication with the outside world since March and appears to be facing imminent expulsion and arrest, is astonishing. The extradition of... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 09, 2018 The Con of Diversity In 1970, when black students occupied the dean’s office at Harvard Divinity School to protest against the absence of African-American scholars on the school’s faculty, the white administration was forced to respond and interview black candidates. It asked James Cone , the greatest theologian of his... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 02, 2018 America The Failed State TORONTO — Our “corporate coup d’état in slow motion,” as the writer John Ralston Saul calls it, has opened a Pandora’s box of evils that is transforming America into a failed state. The “unholy trinity of corruption, impunity and violence,” he said, can no longer be checked. The ruling elites... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 25, 2018 The Soldier's Tale: A Man Who Went to War and Realized His Side Was the Enemy The troops live under The cannon’s thunder From Sind to Cooch Behar Moving from place to place When they come face to face With a different breed of fellow Whose skins are black or yellow They quick as winking chop him into Beefsteak tartar —“The Cannon Song” from “The Threepenny Opera” The soldier... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 11, 2018 Scapegoating Iran Seventeen years of war in the Middle East and what do we have to show for it? Iraq after our 2003 invasion and occupation is no longer a unified country. Its once modern infrastructure is largely destroyed, and the nation has fractured into warring enclaves. We have lost the war in Afghanistan. The... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 29, 2018 Teaching ‘Les Misérables’ in Prison I spent the last four months teaching Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel “Les Misérables” at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey. My students—like Hugo’s main character, Jean Valjean, who served 19 years in prison—struggle with shame, guilt, injustice, poverty and discrimination, and yearn for redemption... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 21, 2018 The Coming Collapse The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy. The longer we perpetuate the fiction that we live in a functioning democracy,... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 14, 2018 Killing Gaza Israel’s blockade of Gaza—where trapped Palestinians for the past seven weeks have held nonviolent protests along the border fence with Israel, resulting in more than 50 killed and 700 wounded by Israeli troops—is one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Yet the horror that is Gaza, where 2... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 30, 2018 The Crime of Being Poor and Black This is the story of Emmanuel Mervilus, who got locked up for a crime he did not commit, whose life was derailed and nearly destroyed by the experience and who will graduate this spring from Rutgers University. It is a story of being a poor black man in America, with the exception being that most... Read more |